Tag: politics

Farmers producing ‘too much meat’

Norway's powerful farmers' lobby often claims how farmers need their subsidies and protection from foreign competition, in order to ensure domestic food production. Now...

Storm builds around Norway’s EU deal

Complaints from some of Norway's biggest labour organizations, combined with no small dose of Norwegian populism, have been fueling dissatisfaction over Norway's trade deal...

New government platform ‘delayed’

Red and blue lights were blinking again during the weekend over the fate of Prime Minister Erna Solberg's non-socialist government.  As of Monday morning,...

Wolf debate ‘blown out of proportion’

It was the wildlife preservationists' turn on Saturday to demonstrate by the thousands in favour of protecting Norway's roughly 60 surviving wolves. As their...

NATO’s Stoltenberg scolds homeland

Jens Stoltenberg addressed the annual conference hosted by Norway's employers' organization NHO many times when he held government power in the country. This week...

Alarms ring around government talks

NEWS ANALYSIS: They were all smiles just a week ago, when the leaders of Norway's four non-socialist parties launched talks in earnest to form...

Permission granted to shoot another wolf

State authorities have given hunters in Norway's northernmost county of Finnmark permission to shoot and kill a third wolf this winter. They claim there's...

MPs face stricter rules for travel

Norway's Parliament has imposed stricter accounting rules on MPs claiming travel expenses, just before another Progress Party politician was found to have submitted questionable...

Anti-wolf activists howl in Oslo again

Killing two more wolves on New Year's Day wasn't enough to satisfy those who view the predator as a threat to their livestock or...

Scandal-plagued building opens

Members of the Norwegian Parliament have now received new office- and meeting-room space, along with an expanded garage and post terminal, but at a...
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